Background information

Git & GitHub

First of all, if you’re new to Git and GitHub, here are a few helpful resources.

What is Git (in a nutshell)
- If you’re totally new to Git, then I recommend reading over this.
- Contains a lot of the basic concepts and terminology.
Introduction to the Command Line
- For folks new to the command line, this is a great introduction.
- Includes fundamentals like navigating your file system through the command line interacting with files, plus a handy command reference guide.
What is GitHub?
- A quick guide to the basics of GitHub.
- Creating a repository, commits, branches, pull requests.
Hands-On Git Tutorial
- If you want further practice, we have provided a brief Git Tutorial.
- Includes a cheat sheet of commands and a hands-on example.

What is GitHub Pages?
- Walks through setting up a user/organizational site.
Jekyll Home & Documentation
GitHub Pages Supported Themes
- This is helpful if you need to get into the details of a theme or to troubleshoot problems if you’ve switched themes.
Remote Themes
- Even more themes for your pages site…
- But your mileage may vary when using remote themes. You may want to clone the whole repo rather than adding using the remote_theme option in your _comfig.yml file.
Markdown Cheatsheet

Building a static website with Jekyll and Github Pages
- This guide has a lot of great background info for beginners, particularly some of the tools you might want as you get more comfortable.
- These are very good instructions for getting Ruby and Jekyll up and running locally for both Windows and Mac users.

Git
- Well, obviously. For the hands on portion of this exercise, you don’t need it… but you should install Git anyway if you don’t have it.
- Windows users: Git comes with Git Bash, a Linux-style command prompt (aka “shell” aka “terminal”), which will make life easier.
Atom text editor
- If you don’t have a decent text editor, Atom is great and it’s free and open source.